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Seoul designers HawaSoo have designed a clothes rail, a lamp and a stool that are styled like components of a bicycle.

Called Breeze, the collection features a lamp with a long pole and handlebar-like supports to lean against the wall, a red stool with one diagonal leg echoing the usual line of a saddle support and a rack for clothes with a wheel at just one end.

See all our stories about bicycles here and all our stories about furniture here.

Here are some more details from the designers:

Hi! We are HawaSoo that the project team is composed of 2 designers, SungHa Lee and Minsoo Park, who work in Seoul.

We design what just interest us. So it seems that we are just a bit lazy, but we think design must be fun! Our works are actually interesting, and we are proud of ours.

We love something fun and stories in it. The story we mentioned here is not a simple storyline like a fairy tale. It emerges with users’ experiences when people use the products.

We hope that our design catches people’s interests and they find the hidden wit within the form. And we expect that it is not just a object but it creates a new story to people.

‘breeze’ is a furniture series that is designed with hidden various structures and functions in a bicycle frame. Lighting, hanger, stool have individual functions and systems however they form a look and a bicycle together with each other.

When people use ‘breeze’, they can experience joyful activity from the bicycle. In addition, people will recognize the ‘breeze’ as a great bicycle.

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A journalist checks in with eight influential designers to assess the future of the field in a new Kindle e-book

In the new e-book “Design Voices,” Dutch designer Maarten Baas points out that 20 years ago, “designing was quite anonymous as a profession.” Now, not only has the importance of design become more visible outside of the creative industries, but designers themselves have also gained distinction as innovative problem-solvers.

Curious about how some of the industry’s most notorious talents see the future and the “larger design arena today,” journalist—and Cool Hunting contributor—Anna Carnick asked Giulio Cappellini, Ross Loveg- rove, Massimo Vignelli, Stefan Sagmeister, Maarten Baas, Tokujin Yoshioka, Dror Benshetrit and Milton Glaser to offer insight into how the profession has changed, and where they think the industry is headed in the years to come.

The thoughtful and timely e-book sells from Amazon as a Kindle Edition ($3), and you can check out some highlights from the “Design Voices” interviews below.

A designer known for injecting technology and science into his materials-driven designs, Ross Lovegrove predicts that in the future people will stray from issues “purely centered on glamor and expression of personal wealth” and instead look to new industrial processes to shape things. “We will witness an explosion of sculptural forms in society based on the digital process and industrial economics,” he says.

The industrious, multi-platform Austrian designer Stefan Sagmeister offers his thoughts on the fate of photography and books, saying “The still image will continue to lose its importance. Everything that can be animated will be animated. The printed book will die.”

As the creator of the iconic “I Heart NY” logo and co-founder of Push Pin Studios and New York magazine, Milton Glaser lives as a graphic design legend. In “Design Voices,” he expertly sums up design as the “fundamental activity of the human species to achieve results,” adding that “the official guideline of design is effectiveness.”

One of today’s game-changing industrial designers, Dror Benshetrit sees today’s design “at a fascinating point”, and believes people are beginning to see it from a more holistic perspective. “Today, it seems that more and more, people need to compartmentalize others and put them in certain boxes,” he says. “I think that’s going to change. We are going to break that, and we’re going to say, ‘Well, I’m a designer, I’m an artist, I’m an inventor, I’m a machinist, and I’m a poet; I’m all of that.'”

All images courtesy of the designers.

Paris 2012: chair brand Emeco presented a new collection of seating by French designer Christophe Pillet at Maison & Objet in Paris this week.

Called Sezz, the series of five chairs were originally created for a hotel in St.Tropez.

They feature handmade recycled aluminium shells with or without upholstery pads.

Emeco are the company behing the iconic all-aluminium Navy Chair first designed in 1944 for the US Navy, which they relaunched in a plastic version made from recycled cola bottles in 2010.

Read more about Paris 2012 in our special category.

Here are some more details from Emeco

The Sezz Collection

Emeco is pleased to present a collection of designed aluminum chairs, stools and swivel chairs entitled Sezz by French designer Christophe Pillet. Known for works that meditate on notions of time as well as the esthetic and illustrative memory, Pillet brings these themes together in five pieces: A series of timeless, handmade recycled aluminum chairs and stools manufactured at the Emeco factory in Pennsylvania US.

“The Sezz chair is a little story about Emeco and what Emeco has become, the capacity of the best of the best. It is a specific story, an interpretation of the Emeco way,“ says Pillet. “ When I sit in a Sezz chair it makes me feel happy. Christophe combined our craftsmanship, material, and unique process to create a new modern icon,” said Gregg Buchbinder, CEO at Emeco.

Pillet’s collaboration with Emeco commenced specially for the Sezz Hotel in St.Tropez where he envisioned interiors with a sense of deap value; the connotation of a home away from home. By blending furniture like a vacation house, Pillet creates an intimate and homely feeling. “ When I was a young kid, I grew up in a home full of Eames furniture. At that time they looked modern and unique and they still do today. Christophe has captured that same poetry. Sezz will be forever young,”said Buchbinder.

The city of St.Tropez is an international hot spot for summer fest but parallel to the glamour is a classic French village. “All hotels in the area are the same – fashion hotels. I wanted the opposite.The precious thing for me is the quality of the sun in southern France. I wanted the hotel to feel like the smell of the skin when you are on the beach. It is all about taking advantage of nature, the shadows, the trees, the sun – truly creating a down tempo. It is more like building a scenography or blending a perfume using the ingredients and flavors of past memories,” said Pillet.

The Collection is a charming fusion of comfort and durability, a sense of embracement; raw industrial strength yet with the sensual sophistication of a French lounge seat. “The look is very subtle, but holds an unbelievable quality; you don’t see the welding, the recycled aluminum, the indestructibleness, they are all real but invisible values, the hidden territory of
a luxury product,”said Pillet.

Sezz emphasize Christopher Pillet’s ongoing interest of the emotional connection to objects. “The chair is not made to look a certain way, but to make you instantly want to climb up in it and have a nap. The idea is to be timeless and create desires, using the objects in its purest form. When you collect, you choose items you would like to keep for a long time and not throw away, even when these items are not in fashion, you still love them,”said Pillet. “In 100 years from now, Sezz will be the kind of chair you will find in a flea market or perhaps a museum. Both require products that last,”said Buchbinder.

“Today we buy items because we desire the memories attached. I sometimes see my job as a designer just like the writers, artists or movie makers – it is about storytelling. You buy furniture because they are representing your sentimental values, like keeping old photographs. Its all moments in your life. Same when you are choosing furniture, its building your story,”said Pillet.

Emeco with Christophe Pillet
First installed at the The Sezz Hotel St. Tropez, France